Demonstrates the importance of overlapping forms of community in the creation of identity.
Argues that the character of Alsatian regionalism points to the ambiguous role of regional identity in both fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the nation.
Author uses the case of Alsace to explode the traditional designations of French civic nationalism versus German ethnic nationalism
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Terms
Note on Places
Note on Archives
Introduction
Chapter 1. Alsace Reborn: Emerging Visions of Alsace, 1895-1913 20
Chapter 2. Monuments, Museums, and Memory: Commemoration in Alsace, 1900-1914
Chapter 3. From Disunity to Unity: The Constitutional Debates and the Zabern Affair, 1910-1914
Chapter 4. War Weariness or National Reunion? World War I and Alsace, 1914-1918
Chapter 5. "Ne toucher pas de choses d'Alsace": The Return of French Rule to Alsace, 1918-1925
Chapter 6. Dual Cultures and Contested Memories: Alsace in the 1920s
Chapter 7. The Apogee of the Autonomist Movement
Conclusion: Visions and Divisions
Bibliography
Index
